Matthew Jones
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Chapter 116 CHAPTER 116 CHOICELESS WORLD A span of over nine years has taught Lino many things; large period of it was spent in isolation and soul-binding silence, one that drove him near the edges of complete madness, and ever since he walked out of it, he found it quite difficult to readjust to the bustle and hustle of the large cities with a lot of people . In his early days spent in the City of Sun, he mainly remained withdrawn, as loud, scattered noises caused weeping headaches to assail him…-
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Chapter 115 CHAPTER 115 THE FORGOTTEN KINGDOM A smell of roasted chicken wafted many-a-man who passed by a small, wooden shack at the city’s outskirts . The shack was no different than those surrounding it, built out of pure wood and roofed with thick straw . It was but a two-rooms shack with a single window and several cracks spreading over its surface like spiderwebs . Outside the door, a dog could be seen sprawled on all four, snoring lowly and occasionally whipping his tail up and down .…
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Chapter 114 CHAPTER 114 DEMONIC BATTLEFIELD Sprawls of corpses - one indistinguishable from another from distance - lay rested across the hilly plain of red-soaked sand, with occasional pond enriching the dry desert with a few trees . Eternal winds blew here, ever since its first inhabitants many moons ago . Such landscape sprawled onward for over two hundred miles and was a dividing point between two entirely different worlds: Divine Dynasty and the Demonic Battlefield . While former enjoyed…
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Chapter 113 CHAPTER 113 THE FIRST AND FINAL BREATHS It is the sort of story which repeats through the ages; a power-hungry Duke blinds others with ambition and passion into assisting him in usurping the throne, yet is denied when his struggle proves lacking . It is the sort of story written by winners to belittle the fallen, to discourage ambition from those who would have it . Duke Erdicth knew, when Ishel’s blade fiercely pierced his heart, that such story would be etched into the histories…
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Chapter 112 CHAPTER 112 SIEGE OF THE THRONE (IV) The Rapture of Heaven --- it is the name that will be given to the battle for the throne by commoners years later . For, to all of them huddled beneath earth in formation-enhanced bunkers, that’s what it was; even so down below, protected by magic of those much closer to gods, they felt it it all -- they felt the earth rumble and quake, and even felt sky tear open as though gashed by a knife . It was the sort of collapse that rendered even the…
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Chapter 111 CHAPTER 111 SIEGE OF THE THRONE (III) Dawn had passed and a midday point had arrived with sun blasting golden rays across the world in a symphonic cascade of colors and warmth . Earth was silent, not a pebble to be found rolling, not a leaf to be spotted falling as though the entire world was waiting in anticipation, eyes peeled to the expanse of the azure sky where swarms stared at each other like bands of locusts, readying to devour each other . Three major battles were taking…
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Chapter 110 CHAPTER 110 SIEGE OF THE THRONE (II) The moon shafted the sun from the sky, or at least those seeing the scenery from deep down below believed; the shining day grimed while streets laden with light turned completely barren of it . Yet, high in the mighty sky rested not the moon over the sun, but an army superseding the imaginations of many . High above, piercing through the fleeting clouds, was a warship reaching staggering length of over four kilometers with width just over half…
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Chapter 109 CHAPTER 109 SIEGE OF THE THRONE (I) There was a methodical sort of tension hanging above the City of Sun, one which most could hardly notice, yet still felt as form of transference . Such tension would find itself reflected in rhythmic sounds of silence, in distant thudding, in footsteps echoing against the limestone walls, in ever-dancing eyes of the curious, in air itself if one were to grasp at it . Lino felt it, to him appearing more akin to a strange rush of colors bearing down…
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Chapter 108 CHAPTER 108 INHIBITIONS Gentle wind swept past the empty road woven into a rising hill on the furthest, southern side . Overlooking the hill itself was a barren cliff, once a home to continent’s tallest waterfall - Sanguine Fall . Now, it was but a carved stone with barren bed and dry, scorched land surrounding it . However, it still acted as a natural barrier, a wall of sort, on city’s south, preventing any invasion from going smoothly . Next to the barren bed of the fall was a…
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Chapter 107 CHAPTER 107 A WORLD BEYOND THE CURTAINS Silken, violet-colored drapes folded over canopy bed, falling as far as the floor adorned with clustered rugs of fantastic designs and colors . Covering wooden floors, they stretched across large room in a sporadic pattern, filling out gaps between and through the tables, chairs, bookshelves and a strange device donning the central spot of the room . It was reminiscent of an altar, with a solitary column upholding a small, squared surface…
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